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> If you are reading this from a dark and bad place, please know that you're not alone. You have a lot of options, and I promise that if you take that first step, things can get better.

I really think they need to have some sort required of "Life Skills" class in high school. In which they teach you how to get help, how to ask for help, how to share your feelings with friends in a safe way. And your options if you do get into a deep dark way. Based on personal evidence, almost every adult gets depressed in some way and many don't know how to get help or deal with it in a healthy way.

I didn't learn any of that till my 30s. I nearly committed suicide multiple times. Our current society and the toxic religious one i grew up in taught me that a man needs to be strong and doesn't need to rely on others. Pray to God and just pull yourself up by your bootstraps mentality.

It's amazing how helpful it is to know that you are loved and cared for. And people want to help you. You just have to ask for it.